UPDATE: Missing Spring Hill boy found

A missing Spring Hill boy was found late Tuesday night after a statewide Amber Alert and a massive manhunt.

Ben Tipton, 11, was found safe at the Papa John's restaurant on Main Street in Spring Hill sometime Tuesday around 10 p.m., confirmed a Spring Hill Police Department dispatcher.

Hundreds of people volunteered to search for the boy at Spring Hill Church of Christ and combed the area near his family's home soon after his disappearance was announced.

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation issued an Amber Alert for Ben Tipton just after 8 p.m., hours after he left his family's home in the Pipkins Hills subdivision on a bike. His bike was later found at a Kroger three miles away from where he was eventually found.

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UPDATE: Missing Spring Hill boy found

A missing Spring Hill boy was found late Tuesday night after a statewide Amber Alert and a massive manhunt.